Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wendy Day

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 00:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wendy Day[edit]

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I don't see any notability per WP:ANYBIO. The article has no sources except for blogs, personal websites and MySpace pages. bender235 (talk) 17:56, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Not hard to find sources for this... see this on the Marketplace.org website, for instance. [Here she is on a panel on rap journalism. Or see Billboard, July 19, 2008, about her running a record label. The article could use a rewrite. Note: I just removed most of the article as a copyright violation of material on the Rap Coalition site. Brianyoumans (talk) 18:47, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It probably wasn't a copyvio since it's pretty obvious who Wdayrapco (talk · contribs) is. --bender235 (talk) 18:54, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:26, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep assuming that someone else fixes this mess and adds better sources. She is barely notable in my book. I tweeked the external sources, but somebody else with knowledge about rap music has to rescue this one. I have already done my share of rescues this month. Bearian (talk) 17:13, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Where is she located? --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:52, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron. SnottyWong ^yak 15:10, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - Right on the knife edge of notability. If this article is cleaned up and reliable sources are added, it can probably be kept. SnottyWong ^talk 15:11, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I think this article can be rescued, but I'm unfamiliar with hip hop in general, so I'm ill-equipped to do it. A Google News Archives search for '"Wendy Day" rap' turned up several articles. This NPR story seems like a good start, as does the book it excerpts from, The Big Payback, ISBN 9780451229298. On the other hand, that article says a lot of things not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, so I'm a little confused. Perhaps this article needs a rewrite? Hopefully, someone can take it from here. -- Ken_g6 (factors | composites) 05:45, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Based on notable news sources others have pointed out already covering her. Dream Focus 09:29, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The NPR story (and the book that the story is about) that Brianyoumans linked to above demonstrates pretty conclusively that she is notable. When I just add the word "rap" to a Google News search of her name, lots of reliable sources discussing her in depth pop right up. Cullen328 (talk) 21:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.